QuakeDev.com downtime and request for archival

by **LordHavoc** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:46 am

Today, suddenly vanished off the face of the internet, due to a lack of money.

This has temporarily impacted at least two in-development games:
whose subversion server is hosted at QuakeDev.com
whose subversion server is hosted at QuakeDev.com

Both of these subversion servers will be migrated to new hosting (thanks to for this) as soon as the subversion history can be retrieved, and SteelStorm's release date should be unaffected.

After Echon put significant effort into determining the status of the server and rescuing it from the gaping maws of death (I.E. server wipe), I footed the bill to get it back online for another month.

An archival backup will be made after it gets back online, affected projects should probably seek alternative hosting unless someone wishes to take over the site and keep paying the bills (in the vicinity of $130/month).

Should someone revive the QuakeDev site?

What projects are important to keep online?

by **Error** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:55 am

130/month is a little steep for me, though I do wish someone could step up and foot the bill. That is incredibly sad that another great community site faces annihilation.

Shit, I only spend about $10 a month for Slipgate Construct.

LordHavoc, I know this is off topic, but since you are footing the bill now, I'd like to personally save the QExpo sites, and the Quake File Archive on my site.

by **Baker** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:38 am

Didn't consciously realize past QuakeExpo sites were hosted there. That'd be a huge loss.

[I have some old stuff hosted there, but I keep about 8 backups of about everything I haven't done in the last 30 days so ...]

Aw hell ... the RQuake Coop Server SVN is there, I remember that as Lardarse hosted it.

And the Quake Retexturing Project !@!

by **leileilol** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:51 am

How about my buddies Dr.S, Sajt, Urre, etc?

by **Baker** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:52 am

And frag.machine ...

Gyro????? (Quake Matt)

by **Error** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:57 am

I know nothing of svn, but I can host anyone on slipgateconstruct.com if needed.

by **mankrip** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:06 am

Problems like this are why I've moved Makaqu to Google Code.

And Tumblr is great because of the Tumblr Post extension for Firefox, but their server gets down so many times it makes me want to move the blog's content to either Blogspot (which is also owned by Google) or WordPress.

by **r00k** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:07 am

time to start downloading all versions of everything there....

by **LordHavoc** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:53 am

by **Dr. Shadowborg** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:57 am

by **Error** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:18 am

by **Spirit** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:02 am

wgetting the webpages in progress.

edit:

you cannot wget mirror qexpo2001.quakedev.com with a simple -m because the site never stops serving more IDs for non-existant booths.

facelift.quakedev.com does some stupid download tracking through php and you will download their files many times because of this.

facelift.quakedev.com is full of spam.

by **leileilol** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:19 am

I'd wait a few days for the clients of quakedev to be aware of the situation so they can make backups and begin their migrating, before everyone goes archive crazy on everything (which is only necessary for the unmaintained like qexpo (which i believe is well archived on some dvds anyway)

by **GiffE** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:18 pm

http://quakery.quakedev.com/qwiki/index.php/Main_P
Back it up! I'd hate to see it go again..

by **leileilol** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:24 pm

That one's up to sajt

QuakeDev.com downtime and request for archival

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